Samantha Isler Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll. If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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I do not live in the world of sobriety.
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Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
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Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do, great, but that's not your goal. With comedy, you're trying to make someone laugh, so to me, it's harder because you are in such a vulnerable position. You're like, 'I hope people like this. I hope I do the joke justice.'
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With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.
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More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.
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One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
